Get Smart: The Movie?

 

 

Warner Bros. has a movie version of Get Smart in the works. And you just thought the show was a foolish obsession of yours. Silly rabbit.

 

Warners is getting serious about the movie, and recently assigned a director to the project. He's none other than John Whitesell, the man who recently directed..........well, I don't know how to tell you this, but he recently directed See Spot Run. One can only hope he was slumming with that movie. His other movie was the poorly received mid-90s flick Calendar Girl, which starred Sister Kate's Jason Priestly and My Secret Identity's Jerry O'Connell. You might remember these blokes from other TV shows, but not me. Oh yeah. Let's hear it for the boy. Me.

The House that Bugs Bunny and Humphrey Bogart built has also assigned Bill Collage and Adam Cooper to rewrite the original Get Smart script, which WB originally picked up in 1998 from a young screenwriter named Nick Marine. As for Collage and Cooper's credits (aside from fancy alliteration), they only have penned one movie. Conveniently, they penned it together. It was 2001's For What It's Worth. Yeah, I've never heard of it either, but the Internet Movie Database suggests that if you liked the movie, you might also like O Brother, Where Art Thou? and The Hudsucker Proxy. Go fig.

Of course, the movie hasn't been cast yet, but that doesn't stop us from dreaming about a cast, does it? No, no, a thousand times no. A couple of years back, fellow Smartian Amanda (who has her own Get Smart site)and I came up with our own dream cast for the Get Smart movie:

Bill Murray as Maxwell Smart

Helen Hunt as Agent 99

Patrick Stewart as the Chief

Brent Spiner as Hymie the Robot

Steve Martin as Siegfried

Bruce Campbell as Shtarker

 

Okay, so none of these casting choices may actually happen, but in a perfect world, this would be the cast. And movie tickets would only cost $3.50. And I would have built myself a time machine. And.....well, I digress.

 

If you have information about the movie you'd like to share with me, or want to comment on my casting choices, feel free to e-mail me.

 

LAST UPDATED: April 26, 2001, when I added the new info about Whitesell, Collage, and Cooper. Check back for updates whenver they become available.

 

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